Much less work has been devoted to adaptation.

Despite this generosity, we simply do not allocate enough resources to solve all of the world s biggest problems.

This makes many pathogens evolutionary land mines awaiting us as we relocate to novel habitats, move species around, and alter existing ecosystems. Nevertheless, most resources are still being allocated for responses to known EID s rather than to assessing the risk of potential EID s.

There has been a huge amount of research into the ways that humans cause climate change, and how we can reduce it. Much less work has been devoted to adaptation.

However, my country is facing severe constraints in implementing the MDGs because we are allocating a significant amount of limited resources to servicing external debt and for managing the HIV AIDS pandemic, at the cost of the social and economic transformation necessary to fight poverty.

If we spend vast amounts of money on carbon cuts in the mistaken belief that we are stopping malaria and reducing malnutrition, we are less likely to put aside money for the direct policies that would help today.